The Medical Marriage: Sustaining Healthy Relationships for Physicians and Their Families

The Medical Marriage helps physicians families take a proactive approach to making medical marriage and family relationships work successfully. It identifies and explains the key issues, potential difficulties, and tensions that can characterize marriages and family relationships in which one or both partners are physicians. The book offers self-assessment tools and case narratives to help readers identify traits that are common to physician families and that can cause strain and tension in a marriage. Key Features: • self-assessment tools and case narratives to help readers identify certain personality types and traits that are common to physician families and that can cause strain and tension in a marriage. • conversation builders and discussion techniques to help spouses examine and meaningfully discuss the issues that characterize both the positive and negative aspects of a medical marriage. • suggestions and techniques for improving and rescuing relationships that are or could potentially be at risk. • a new chapter dedicated to the medical marriage in the second half of life, as empty nesters and retirees • a new chapter on managing anger that offers proven methods for understanding, controlling, and redirecting angry thoughts and actions Read more